Our artist-portraits about Michel de Broin und Shary Boyle are presented at the Reel Artists Film Festival Toronto 2012 and at the Canadian Art Reel Film Festival in Calgary 2012. For all of you who can't be there, watch the artist-portraits on our website: Michel de Broin - Matters of Circulation und Shary Boyle - Heartburnt Porcelain.
Kiss@Belvedere - Solidarity within the fight against HIV
23. July 2010, 15:09:50 unter Austria, Belvedere, Event, Museums, Podcasts, Video, ViennaAs a sign of our solidarity within the fight against HIV and the social exclusion of HIV positive people. A flash mob, initiated by the Viennese Museum Belvedere - we filmed at Kiss@Belvedere …
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Brigitte Kowanz - Now I See
23. June 2010, 13:42:58 unter Austria, German, MUMOK, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, ViennaIn the exhibition Now I See, the MUMOK in Vienna shows yet another retrospective of an internationally renowned Austrian artist. On display there is an overview of Brigitte Kowanz’ oeuvre, with a focus on recent years. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| computer & iPod | send feedback „We are in a constant process of translation“ ascertains Kowanz. “Perception is translation. Language is translation.” Kowanz concerns herself with phenomena eluding conscious perception. In this respect she was influenced by Paul Virilio, who dealt with The Aesthetics of Disappearance of “stable” images. more »
Contemporary Art in Toronto - Finding The Right Mix
31. May 2010, 11:28:26 unter AGO, Audio, Canada, English, Galleries, Interviews, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Museums, Podcasts, TorontoToronto might be one of the most exciting art centres in North America but the city has not yet been able to find its own identity and its place in the international Contemporary Art scene. All the ingredients are there… It is all about finding the right mix.
Part 1. What does the city need?
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| send feedback There has been much debate over whether a national style, philosophical outlook, or unified and cohesive culture exists or ever has existed within Canada. The country is large geographically, with many distinct regions, and its population is diverse and made up of varying national and ethnic backgrounds. more »
MUSA - The City as Art Lover
20. May 2010, 12:44:24 unter Austria, German, Interviews, Museum auf Abruf, Museums, Podcasts, Video, ViennaThe collection of the city of Vienna shows an enormous variety of approaches to the human figure. In other words: the sculpture steps off its pedestal – or not.
| computer & iPod | send feedback The Museum on Demand MUSA houses much of the artwork purchased by the City of Vienna through the years and is currently displaying them in the exhibition “re_figuring spaces”. The collection that owes its existence mostly to sponsorship initiatives of the municipality provides a glimpse of the different positions on sculpture and their evolution in the last half-century, as well as a who’s who of the Austrian postwar art scene. more »
Prince Eugen - General, Philosopher and Art Lover
17. February 2010, 14:48:00 unter Austria, Belvedere, Companies, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, UNIQA, Video, ViennaAn exhibition on the statesman and art patron Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan at Vienna’s Orangerie and Lower Belvedere. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| computer & iPod | send feedback Prinz Eugen, as he is known in Austria, was a renowned lover and collector of art and left a vast collection of paintings, copper engravings, books and hand writings. He became one of the most influential Austrians of his time when he moved to the country after being rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army.
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Esra Ersen- Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
5. February 2010, 22:07:14 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, Vienna
| computer & iPod | send feedback Esra Ersen is interested in the formation of identity and its transformation in different contexts or power structures. Her work “Carousel” shown in the exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) was produced with high school students from Cologne. Ersen asked the students to model Turkish heads out of clay.
Open Space - Boundary Signal
13. January 2010, 14:30:26 unter Art Spaces, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Open Space, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, ViennaThe boundary signal as a conceptual starting point for an interdisciplinary exhibition at Open Space in Vienna. An interview with Fatih Aydogdu.
| computer & iPod | send feedback Since the beginning of 2008, Open Space, the Center for Art Projects, has been in full swing in the Vienna art world with its ambitious program. Open Space’s repertoire of exploring artistic variety and multilayeredness corresponds to its self-conception as an open space for international networking. more »
Mirabilia, Furies and Curiosa - The Chamber of Curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. December 2009, 16:38:39 unter Austria, Companies, Exhibitions, German, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Museums, Podcasts, UNIQA, Video, Vienna“And if there ever was an age when one sees varied and wondrous things I believe that ours is one” (Mateo Bandello, 1554) This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| Computer & iPod | send feedback Miniatures made of ivory, rhino and narwhale horn. Ostrich eggs, symbols of power and resistance as the ancient mythology says the giant birds live on stones and iron. Seychelles nuts washed ashore on the Maldives. Bezoars, rocks found in the stomach of ruminant animals that are rumoured to dispel melancholy, composed in the finest art of metalworking. Arty watches, wondrous automatic machines, quadrants, astrolabes and other scientific instruments. The most bizarre monstrosities, Madonna figures and Dionysian satyrs standing in a row with mystic animals thrown out of the deepest oceans. more »
New Viennese Violins - A Virtuoso Craft
11. November 2009, 14:17:01 unter Austria, English, Event, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Presentation, Video, ViennaViolins are often only spoken about when they are stolen. However, before they can be stolen, they have to be built, and this is the aspect on which we focus in this podcast.
| Computer & iPod | send feedback The “New Viennese Violins“ Association came about based on an idea from Christoph Schachner, to bring professional and amateur musicians closer to high-quality, newly manufactured instruments. These offer a better alternative to the mystified, often overestimated old instruments. “As a result of violins being treated like antiques, a myth has developed around them which is often incomprehensible. Hence, a new violin often costs only a quarter or fifth of what an old violin of similar quality costs“, says Nupi Jenner, a member of the association. more »
Herbert Boeckl - Capturing the Essential
4. November 2009, 11:57:08 unter Austria, Belvedere, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, ViennaCenturies do not have clear boundaries, rather, they flow into each other in the same way that the years which they are made up of do. The transition period in which the nineteenth and twentieth century collapsed into each other was called the fin de siècle. The fact that something was coming to an end was a modern perspective.
| Computer & iPod | send feedback In 1918, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Wagner, and Koloman Moser all died within a year. Accompanying them was the fall of turn-of-the-century, successfully up-and-coming, modern Austrian art. So what remained in terms of artistic progress? For one thing, there was Oskar Kokoschka. He had moved to Dresden and fled—as did a majority of the intellectual and artistic heavyweights—upon the rise of the National Socialists: first to Prague, and then to London. And then there was Herbert Boeckl, who stayed behind. This starting point was not exactly ideal for the development of the painter: an authoritarian, conservative, anti-modern mood prevailed in Austria, along with a shortage of moral support from colleagues. more »
